On Wednesday, day day 670 of Israel’s ongoing genocide against the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces dropped bombs on tents of displaced civilians, setting the makeshift tent city in al-Mawasi on fire, shot to death 87 starving civilians desperately seeking food for their families.
Over the past 24 hours, Israeli troops killed 138 Palestinians and wounded 771, while the death toll and injuries since March 18, after the Israeli occupation violated the ceasefire agreement, reached 9,654 killed and 39,401 wounded.
Of those killed in the past 24 hours, 87 were shot to death at so-called ‘aid’ sites run by US corporation GHF, with 570 injured , bringing the total number of livelihood victims who arrived at hospitals to 1,655, and the number of injured to 11,800.
Gaza hospitals also recorded five new deaths from famine and malnutrition over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of victims of famine and malnutrition to 193, including 96 children.
Medical sources announced on Wednesday that the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 61,158, the majority of whom are children and women, since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7, 2023.
The same sources added that the death toll has risen to 151,442 since the start of the aggression, while a number of victims remain under the rubble, unable to be reached by ambulances and civil defense teams.
In the morning on Wednesday, medical sources reported that 20 starving civilians were killed and dozens injured when a truck loaded with aid overturned on a crowd of relief seekers in the central Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that the incident occurred as a large number of starving civilians gathered in an attempt to obtain humanitarian aid, amid the stifling crisis the Gaza Strip is experiencing as a result of the ongoing siege and aggression .
The sources pointed out that the aid truck overturned after the occupation forces forced it to enter through an unsafe road.
This humanitarian tragedy reflects the scale of the catastrophe facing the people of Gaza, where the search for a loaf of bread has become fraught with danger, in the absence of radical and rapid solutions to the worsening catastrophic conditions.
Palestinian surgeon collapses from starvation while performing an operation. He received IV liquids then went back to work in the operating room:
In another horrific massacre, Palestinian man Adel Khdair was killed along with his wife, Kefah Shehada, and their three children, following a deadly Israeli airstrike that targeted their home in the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, wiping the entire family from the civil registry.
Fires erupt in displacement tents in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, after they were bombed by Israeli occupation aircraft.
Former Palestinian national team player Suleiman Al-Obeid was shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza City on Wednesday.
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip announced the death of Al-Ubaid (41 years old) while waiting to receive aid.
Captain Suleiman Al-Obeid will certainly not be the last player or athlete to fall as a result of the occupation’s ongoing crimes and daily massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip for more than 22 months, amidst a disturbing international silence.
Thirty-nine athletes, scouts, and youth were martyred in the past month alone, bringing the number of martyrs from the sports, youth, and scouting movement to more than 656 since the beginning of the genocide.
Al-Obaid, who began his career with his home club, Khadamat Al-Shati’ Club, also played for Al-Amari Club in the West Bank Premier League. He scored his first international goal for the Palestine national team against Yemen during the 2010 West Asian Football Federation Championship, and also represented the national team in the 2012 AFC Challenge Cup qualifiers and the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
A medical source reported that at least five civilians were killed and more than 40 others were injured after the occupation targeted a number of aid workers north of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. A young man was also killed by Israeli army fire near the aid center in Netzarim, central Gaza.
A girl was also killed by Israeli drone fire on Al-Nafaq Street in Gaza City.
Aerial images of the destruction of Gaza City:
Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Wednesday that more than 14,800 patients in the Gaza Strip are in dire need of specialized medical care, calling for accelerating medical evacuations .
In a post on the X platform, Ghebreyesus stated that the World Health Organization supported the medical evacuation of 15 critically ill children, along with 42 of their relatives, from Gaza to Jordan on Wednesday morning .
He added, “More than 14,800 patients in Gaza are still in urgent need of specialized medical care. We urge more countries to take action to receive patients and expedite medical evacuations by all possible means .”
Three Palestinians were killed on Wednesday evening by Israeli occupation forces’ gunfire and shelling in the cities of Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip.
WAFA correspondents said that two killed and a number of wounded arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital after Israeli aircraft bombed a tent housing displaced people in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
A citizen was killed and others were injured by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets south of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
Five Palestinians were killed and others injured on Wednesday when Israeli warplanes targeted a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said that hunger has become the new killer in the Gaza Strip, stressing that it is time to deliver aid safely and without obstacles .
“After five months of relentless attempts to replace the UN-coordinated response with four Israeli military distribution points, hunger has become the latest killer in Gaza , ” Lazzarini said in a post on the X platform on Tuesday.
The UN Commissioner noted that “community distribution centers, with the support of partners, were providing food and aid to approximately two million people before famine spread across the Strip.”
The UNRWA Commissioner-General stressed that “it is time to deliver aid safely, unhindered, and with dignity,” and emphasized the need to allow the United Nations and its partners to do their work.
